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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 12:21 BST (UK) »
According to William's 1879 birth certificate the parents were married in Greenock in Jan 1879 but there is no matching marriage on SP.
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Possibly spelling of Irish names making it more difficult to find the marriage on SP?
Mechan, Meechan, Meeckan, etc.
Dowie, Dowey, Doey, etc.
I've tried using a few wildcards and also using just first names and nothing coming up.
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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 12:22 BST (UK) »
According to William's 1879 birth certificate the parents were married in Greenock in Jan 1879 but there is no matching marriage on SP.
Isobel

Possibly spelling of Irish names making it more difficult to find the marriage on SP?
Mechan, Meechan, Meeckan, etc.
Dowie, Dowey, Doey, etc.

It doesn't make it easy, does it?     :)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 12:29 BST (UK) »
Even the simplest of names seem to develop variations as soon as you start looking for them  :(
 
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 12:31 BST (UK) »
Have been looking on Scotlands People with just the first initial of bride and grooms names and found nothing.
Ireland: Mayo - O'Malley, Malley, Currigan, Lynchacan. Antrim - McAuley. Louth - Byrne. Down - Smith.

England: Lancashire - O'Malley, McCauley, Foster.


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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 13:27 BST (UK) »
Scottish PO Directories

http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office

Have checked "GREENOCK (65)" around the 1879/80 period under search keys "64 drumfrochar" or "mechan". No record of a "Mechan" (or similar) at No.64 but there are "Mechans" listed - unfortunately not a William.

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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 14:18 BST (UK) »
How about the online archive of the Greenock Telegraph?

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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 14:26 BST (UK) »
I've been checking the "Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette" via another source. Unfortunately, link has gone down

Did spot 2 apartments being advertised "To Let" from Whitsunday at 64 Drumfrochar Rd in the 8 March 1880 edition.

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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 15:04 BST (UK) »
They are living at 71 Regent Street, Greenock in 1881 ( surname Meighan on Ancestry). Can't find them in 1891, nor can I find a likely birth for Joseph in England.
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Re: William Mechan born 1879
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 27 June 17 16:14 BST (UK) »
Wonder whether Sugarbakers might have any reference to the sugarhouse William worked at?
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON